Hi,
I was seeing these errors for various packages on netbsd-6 on VAX:
...
=> Checking for portability problems in extracted files
awk: floating point exception: Floating point overflow
input record number 165261, file
source line number 34
*** Error code 1
Stop.
...

The corresponding line calls split, apparently with either parameter
empty. While it'd be nice to figure out where in awk this is and fix it
there (I'll do that some other time), this fixes it for now:

if (length(line) == 0 || length(word) == 0)
return;
Is there a better way to do this?
John